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thank you. >> mr. greenwald? >> i will take those in order. yeah, i would just take those in order. i think mike rogers picked a very bad week to deny that mr. snowden is a whistleblower, given the federal court decision that you reference in the second part of your question, which is that the core program, the first one we revealed and that mr. snowden, when i first met with them, cited as what caused him to come forward, the collection of the metadata of all americans without regard to suspicion of evidence of wrongdoing, it regards the core guarantee of rights in the constitution and the court said it does not come close. somebody comes forward and revealed that a federal program that a court says is illegal is a classic whistleblower. on top of the fact that his revelations have sparked a debate in the united states and around the world that -- as evidenced by the hearing that we are participating in today about all sorts of things that i think everybody on all sides of the debate agrees we are better off kno
thank you. >> mr. greenwald? >> i will take those in order. yeah, i would just take those in order. i think mike rogers picked a very bad week to deny that mr. snowden is a whistleblower, given the federal court decision that you reference in the second part of your question, which is that the core program, the first one we revealed and that mr. snowden, when i first met with them, cited as what caused him to come forward, the collection of the metadata of all americans without...
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thank you. >> mr. greenwald? >> i will take those in order. yeah, i would just take those in order. i think mike rogers picked a very bad week to deny that mr. snowden is a whistleblower, given the federal court decision that you reference in the second part of your question, which is that the core program, the first one we revealed and that mr. snowden, when i first met with them, cited as what caused him to come forward, the collection of the metadata of all americans without regard to suspicion of evidence of wrongdoing, it regards the core guarantee of rights in the constitution and the court said it does not come close. somebody comes forward and revealed that a federal program that a court says is illegal is a classic whistleblower. on top of the fact that his revelations have sparked a debate in the united states and around the world that -- as evidenced by the hearing that we are participating in today about all sorts of things that i think everybody on all sides of the debate agrees we are better off kno
thank you. >> mr. greenwald? >> i will take those in order. yeah, i would just take those in order. i think mike rogers picked a very bad week to deny that mr. snowden is a whistleblower, given the federal court decision that you reference in the second part of your question, which is that the core program, the first one we revealed and that mr. snowden, when i first met with them, cited as what caused him to come forward, the collection of the metadata of all americans without...
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i know that mr. greenwald has material that was given to him directly. i can't tell you exactly what we gave him that he didn't have already. >> do you consider that you have communicated information on the identity on the house adjourned diction -- [inaudible] >> well, i'm trying to make myself clearly. i think it is unknown to the government, apparent to the government for many months that the material that mr. snowed in leaked included a good many documents they had names of security people working for both the nsa and gq. as i said and i will say it again, i told the cabinet secretary in mid-july that we were sharing this with "the new york times." >> which you would expect constitutes sharing. >> a work in new york, yes. >> one of the reasons i brought this book along with me today. should be familiar with this. the people who remember the mid-80s on a cabinet secretary traveling to australia to try and suppress this book, which was written by a former mi-5 agent. we had this ridiculous sight of the british government secretary trying to top the pub
i know that mr. greenwald has material that was given to him directly. i can't tell you exactly what we gave him that he didn't have already. >> do you consider that you have communicated information on the identity on the house adjourned diction -- [inaudible] >> well, i'm trying to make myself clearly. i think it is unknown to the government, apparent to the government for many months that the material that mr. snowed in leaked included a good many documents they had names of...
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small world mr snowden the news corroborate those mr greenwald the most part to us i am confident will kill will continue to make very big headlines for many months to come and as far sweden is concerned yes this is the beginning and not the end of the story here and you think this swedish t.v. station might expect a similar clampdown by its government as the guardian newspaper in britain experienced no i don't think sweden is a bit better on its democratic standards. i've been over since we don't why start saying all the things that have been said in public. and i've talked at length through mist of our limits three of the agency concerned he's not telling me anything that you haven't. he's not admitting anything different but they do try to be a little bit open and more flexible towards that you know it's them the heavy handed mediæval approach of the british government and into. sorry and in terms of political ramifications i mean sweden's foreign minister has come back and said that the revelations went affect relations with russia do you share his optimism where it's a russian to
small world mr snowden the news corroborate those mr greenwald the most part to us i am confident will kill will continue to make very big headlines for many months to come and as far sweden is concerned yes this is the beginning and not the end of the story here and you think this swedish t.v. station might expect a similar clampdown by its government as the guardian newspaper in britain experienced no i don't think sweden is a bit better on its democratic standards. i've been over since we...
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mr. greenwald, welcome to a session of the committee of inquiry of the european parliament. we have about an hour for this session. i'm first going to invite you to do your presentation, and then afterwards we will take questions and answers. very pleased to have you with us here today. i will give you the floor, or the video link, rather. the floor is yours. good afternoon, and thank you to the committee for convening this inquiry and for inviting me to speech you as well. there has been a virtual avalanche of stories from reporters over the past 6 months regarding espionage and electronic surveillance by the nsa and its partners, and each of these stories has been extremely important, but i think that the quantity of them has sometimes endangered the ultimate point from being obscured. i wanted to spend a little bit of time discussing what i think is the primary revelation, the crux of all of these stories that ties them together and is the important thing for us to realize. and that is what the ultimate along with nsa is, its most loyal, some might say subservient, and ju
mr. greenwald, welcome to a session of the committee of inquiry of the european parliament. we have about an hour for this session. i'm first going to invite you to do your presentation, and then afterwards we will take questions and answers. very pleased to have you with us here today. i will give you the floor, or the video link, rather. the floor is yours. good afternoon, and thank you to the committee for convening this inquiry and for inviting me to speech you as well. there has been a...
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i know mr. greenwald has cghq materials that he has, given to him directly from ed snowden. i can't tell you what we gave him that he didn't have already. >> another question. do you consider you have communication on the identity of these agencies out of jurisdiction contrary to the territory? >> and what that is? >> try to make myself clear. the government for many months what ed snowden leaked, included a good many documents with security people. as i said, i told the secretary in mid july that we were sharing this with the new york times. >> and communicate that? >> they worked in new york, yes. one of the reasons for that, some of you would be familiar with this, the people who remember the mid 80s, traveling to australia to look at the am i 5 agent, and tried to stop what had been published in australia. what was very much in my mind was the particular situation where the guardian was the only publication in the world that was not able to publish material that was being published in rio or germany or around the world. >> in your response to that, do you consider it is
i know mr. greenwald has cghq materials that he has, given to him directly from ed snowden. i can't tell you what we gave him that he didn't have already. >> another question. do you consider you have communication on the identity of these agencies out of jurisdiction contrary to the territory? >> and what that is? >> try to make myself clear. the government for many months what ed snowden leaked, included a good many documents with security people. as i said, i told the...
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mr. greenwald broke the story and i spoke with him tonight along with cnn jeffrey toobin. >> a federal judge said the nsa program almost certainly violates the constitution. does that vindicate what edward snowden did? >> i don't think so. but one of the things people like me have been saying from the very beginning is what snowden exposed has not been shown to be illegal. today, a judge said it was illegal. so there's no question that today is a big victory for glenn greenwald and snowden and all of their supporters. >> in your opinion why doesn't it justify what he did? >> he still took classified information and exposed it in a completely illegal way requires tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of work by the american government to redo, plus, potentially exposed it to the chinese and the russians. so i don't support what snowden did at all. i don't think this vindicates him but it certainly comes a lot closer to vindicating him than any previous development has. >> glenn, shou
mr. greenwald broke the story and i spoke with him tonight along with cnn jeffrey toobin. >> a federal judge said the nsa program almost certainly violates the constitution. does that vindicate what edward snowden did? >> i don't think so. but one of the things people like me have been saying from the very beginning is what snowden exposed has not been shown to be illegal. today, a judge said it was illegal. so there's no question that today is a big victory for glenn greenwald and...
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. > not since mr. greenwald left the guardian, i have no contact. >> we have one question, we have commissioner coming in. i have the commissioner arise reason.other i did suspect that it's going to happen. a session on counterterrorism. r. harper first, then mr. ellis, then mr. willing. >> there are many interesting things. i'd be grateful how we can result this fundamental the security services will tend to trust us, this is a problem but we can't prove it to you. there is simply no way to explore that properly. issue that the terrorism, like pedophiles as my is eague said earlier, clearly something that you can't do anything to stop it. for is often used to argue further legislation. what is the solution to this problem? we avoid being in this constant position where security say things l just and there's no way to accomplish it? we need to have those eventually side, how can we break that down? >> well, okay. briefly as possible -- this is clearly at the heart of it. and in the real world, this is
. > not since mr. greenwald left the guardian, i have no contact. >> we have one question, we have commissioner coming in. i have the commissioner arise reason.other i did suspect that it's going to happen. a session on counterterrorism. r. harper first, then mr. ellis, then mr. willing. >> there are many interesting things. i'd be grateful how we can result this fundamental the security services will tend to trust us, this is a problem but we can't prove it to you. there is...
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. >> are you in touch with mr. snowden? >> no. >> someone else is on your behalf. >> not since mr. greenwald left the guardian, i have no contact. >> we have one question, we have the commissioner coming in. i have the commissioner arise for any other reason. i did suspect that it's going to happen. but we have a session on counterterrorism. dr. harper first, then mr. ellis, then mr. willing. >> there are many interesting things. but i think i'd be grateful how we can result this fundamental problem that the security services will tend to trust us, this is a problem but we can't prove it to you. and that there is simply no way to explore that properly. we also have the issue that terrorism, like pedophiles as my colleague said earlier, is clearly something that you can't do anything to stop it. this is often used to argue for further legislation. what is the solution to this problem? how can we avoid being in this constant position where security services will just say things and there's no way to accomplish it? we need to have those eventually to the other side, how can we break t
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what was your reaction to what we heard from mr. greenwald. >> i thought it was interesting. glenn has done a lot of good work on the story as well and published significant pieces. i'm sure he's right in that the disclosures that are going to appear in papers and certainly based on him and his own desire to continue reporting on the subject won't change with what the president ultimately decides to do. i do think that when the president comes back from vacation and does come ahead with whatever changes he's going to make that that will change the story a little bit. i think it will be interesting to see how the president comes out on this both on the recommendations of his panel and personally. it sounds from the comments he's made he's also done an enormous amount of thinking. he's gone early in the story, felt really good where things were with the nsa to saying in the interview chris montana us did on hardball that it raised concerns and talking about what could be done that would at least give the country a better sense of transparency and a feel that they were not the t
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the critics will say is look, that was not an open court proceeding as we saw in the statement from mr. snowden via glenn greenwald, those were secret proceedings where nobody was arguing against the legality of the program. and now we're really having the first debate or battle where it's really joined between two sides arguing the legal merits. >> woodruff: so continue to watch. >> definitely. >> woodruff: josh gerstein, thank you. >> thank you, judy. >> ifill: federal reserve officials are facing a delicate dilemma once again this week: when is the right time to take a smaller role in an economic recovery that's clearly underway, but one that still has left many americans behind? "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman has the story. it's part of his ongoing coverage making sense of financial news. >> a candle also known as a taper, a candle shrinking, also known as tapering. and thus we introduce the decision once again facing the federal reserve and its much anticipated open market committee meeting this week. to taper or not to taper. that is the burning question. for bond
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intelligence that mr. snowden or the people that glen greenwald is going to be working with, any time they want, they have in their own private ownership this national security information? they can do with what they want. >> does it concern me? i hope that the people whose hands it's in, you know -- behave responsibly. >> isn't that like the government? isn't that what we hope the nsa -- sounds exactly the same thing, but they're private, not the government. >> now you know, the nsa could have not given a contractor access to all of its international secrets. and maybe we wouldn't be in this situation. so, you know, the fact that nobody has been, you know, fired at the top of the nsa -- i completely agree with you. it is scandalous that the nsa can't protect its own secrets from its contractors. not even its own public employees. >> dana, just moving a little bit -- staying on the situation a little bit, but on a slightly different angle, the house and senate committees on intelligence, mike rogers, diann
intelligence that mr. snowden or the people that glen greenwald is going to be working with, any time they want, they have in their own private ownership this national security information? they can do with what they want. >> does it concern me? i hope that the people whose hands it's in, you know -- behave responsibly. >> isn't that like the government? isn't that what we hope the nsa -- sounds exactly the same thing, but they're private, not the government. >> now you know,...
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snowden's coming forward and blowing the whistle on them. >> glen greenwald, thanks for spending time with us. >>> still ahead, we continue this debate on what the nsa can and cannot do. and later in the hour, a story that won't go away unless we do something. a fact check for some politicos and reporters. the president is not giving up on gun reform. >> we have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. we have to do more to heal troubled minds. ♪ before using her new bank of america credit card, which rewards her for responsibly managing her card balance. before receiving $25 toward her balance each quarter for making more than her minimum payment on time each month. tracey got the bankamericard better balance rewards credit card, which fits nicely with everything else in life she has to balance. that's the benefit of responsibility. apply online or visit a bank of america near you. we've learned how to stretch our party budget. ♪ the only downer? my bargain brand towel made a mess of things. so goodbye so-called bargain brands, hello bounty
snowden's coming forward and blowing the whistle on them. >> glen greenwald, thanks for spending time with us. >>> still ahead, we continue this debate on what the nsa can and cannot do. and later in the hour, a story that won't go away unless we do something. a fact check for some politicos and reporters. the president is not giving up on gun reform. >> we have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. we have to do more to heal...
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glenn greenwald, of course, previously of "the guardian," bart gelman who did the interview today in "the washington post" and laura poitress, the filmmaker. and in this alternative 60-second message, snowden invokes george orwell, says he warned us of the danger of this kind of information, the types of collection in the book, 1984, microphones, video cameras, tvs that watch us are nothing compared to what we have available today. so he's talking about the surveillance state, and that's the message in this snowden media blitz. >> michael isikoff, we're going to be watching to see what he does say in that 60-second address. certainly a lot of people in washington too. thank you so much. >> reporter: okay, thank you. >>> it's been quite a few weeks for the lgbt community in light of the pivotal rulings in favor of marriage equality in utah and ohio. the "duck dynasty" controversy and the announcement of the u.s. olympic delegation to sochi. joining me now from reno, nevada, is the vice president of communication for human rights watch. fred, thanks for joining us today. i want to star
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the blower got his wish and received a russian passport and with a valid until next august for the us mr chance to get their man but their u.k. allies went to work on snowden's associates in london the partner of n.s.a. leaks journalist glenn greenwald was detained at london's heathrow airport and questioned for nine hours because he had some of snowden's documents in his possession then the guardian newspaper in august revealed the men in black suits that entered their offices telling them to destroy hard drives containing classified files or else that g c h q raid took place in july according to the newspaper but by then it was too little too late the publications outed her and chief said there are many copies of these documents in other parts of the world or syria for correspondence but on top of this story let's cross to her she's in london she's been following it closely so either a happy new year to you very shortly thank you for being with us tonight to see you as always snowden certainly put his name on them are a lot of other information too putting it mildly. absolutely well fo
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it is just similarly untenable to have a system where mr. snowden, even if one court has said he is right can force the government to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, can jeopardize individuals who are working on those systems. it's just not a way to run a government. >> you can respond. >> i just want to say one thing. if you look at the stories over the last decade that are the most widely regarded what it involves is discovering illegal behavior done in secret coming to journalists who report on it. because someone in the justice department has come to them. people inside the government come to them and say i have discovered these secret instances of wrong doing. i trust you as a journalist to report it responsibly. that's why we have a free press and part of the fabric of american democracy. >> jeff, i assume you take issue with the volume of information. >> you have investigative journalists seek out individual facts and subjects versus disclosure of entire government programs, all the underlying documents which jeopardize the inv
it is just similarly untenable to have a system where mr. snowden, even if one court has said he is right can force the government to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, can jeopardize individuals who are working on those systems. it's just not a way to run a government. >> you can respond. >> i just want to say one thing. if you look at the stories over the last decade that are the most widely regarded what it involves is discovering illegal behavior done in secret coming to...
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i think we are a nation at war, idea mr. snowden as someone who has helped the enemy to understand our surveillance techniques. formerlenn greenwald, reporter for "the guardian," who first disclosed the documents by snowden, tweeted this. tonic to lots a of this conceptions from all corners of the world. that is glenn greenwald. diane, republican caller. hi, i think snowden did a surface. government is not transparent. we need to know what is going on. host: diane, are you still there? what do you think should be done, what should congress do? caller: he should come back here and go to trial. fairly, whichone is going to be difficult. people pouncing on this man. i want to know what is going on, i do not care what is going on, i want to know. tweetedane, "the hill" this, the house intelligence chairman said on one of the sunday shows that snowden committed treason. caller: i disagree. host: why> caller: this government is not transparent, which it promised to be. i want to know what is going on. i like to know facts. i would
i think we are a nation at war, idea mr. snowden as someone who has helped the enemy to understand our surveillance techniques. formerlenn greenwald, reporter for "the guardian," who first disclosed the documents by snowden, tweeted this. tonic to lots a of this conceptions from all corners of the world. that is glenn greenwald. diane, republican caller. hi, i think snowden did a surface. government is not transparent. we need to know what is going on. host: diane, are you still...